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Show fi Disease Damages Tea Crops. A curious dlseaBo which has done much damage to the tea crops of northeast India Is known ,as "red ruBt." An account of tho species of alga (Ccpaleuros vlrescens), which causes It, Is given by C. M. Hutchinson Hutchin-son In tho "Memoirs of the Agricultural Agricultu-ral Department ot India." It attacks the leaveB and Btoms ot the tea plant, forming yellow patches. It Is propagated prop-agated by two ktndR of spores, one carried by water and tho other by air. |